Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

Installing Nessus on Kali

The first step to performing automated pentesting and vulnerability assessment using Nessus, is obviously to install it on Kali. To make things easy, Nessus comes in a .deb package that can be directly installed using dpkg.

1. To install Nessus, the first step is to download the .deb package from the tenable website, on https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus:

2. Once downloaded, we need to transfer this to our Kali PentestBox on AWS. We can do this file transfer using WinSCP on Windows. On Linux/macOS, the native SCP utility can be used. The setup is available at https://winscp.net/eng/download.php
3. Once WinSCP is installed, ...